Over the last 5 years the major shifts in marketing and web have been towards a direction of: Web 2.0, The Long Tail, Peer production, crowd sourcing and now sourcing, global scalability in most of the industries, innovative products and now the new backbone direction is towards a social media web and a marketing focused in social networks targeting self directed clients and aiming an engagement and medium term relation.

I decided to synthesise some of these trends in a presentation, reflection in the web project that I deeply admire slideshare.net, indeed one of the most interesting and useful social, publishing websites out there. Have a look and let me know your input!

My name is Dinis Guarda and I am driven by ideas and making things happens. I am global Internet executive and I have been working in EU, America, Africa and Asia. I am also a strategist and thought leader author passionate about ideas, digital trends, marketing, comunications and open business. I have an unabridged passion for entrepreneurship, writing, authorship, creativity (image, art, film, music), all forms of curating and strategic, pragmatic thinking and the world wide web. more...